Simple LaTeX Question

[Ben Pfaff]

"Alex Morris" <egore100@hotmail.com> writes:

> I've been writing a tutorial in LaTeX and I'm loving it!  LaTeX is a 
> god-send for all casual writers.  However, after searching the LaTeX2e help 
> file that comes with MiKTeX I cannot figure out how to underline a piece of 
> text.  All they talk about is italics and bold and a couple other formatting 
> features.  How do I underline a piece of text?

Mostly, you don't.  Underlining is (almost) never used in
professional printing of books.  If you still want to do it,
write \underline{text}.